Customer Reviews
quite simply one of the best films ever made. - By: Mrs. Patricia Bark, 20 Feb 2008 
What a glorious little film. A comic masterpiece, what more can I say. Its guaranteed to put a warm smile on your face after the most miserable of days. I have seen it countless times & its always fresh & funny. And by the way, Peter Sellers provided the voice of the parrot. At one stage he actually squawks 'Alec Guinness!"
great film, bad dvd - By: normanthecarpet, 23 Oct 2007 
The Ladykillers is one of the greatest British comedy films ever, with a uniformly superb cast. However, while the picture quality is fine, the sound on this dvd is abominable, like a bad cassette tape. I also bought Kind Hearts & Coronetsin the same series & that is equally bad. To knock out such classic films on such cheaply produced dvds is reprehensible & the manufacturers should be ashamed.
"No One Touches Mrs. Lopsided!" - By: ray dorrity, 04 Oct 2007 One of, if not the greatest of the Ealing comedies.
Over fifty years on & having watched it many, many times, I still find something new to laugh at each time I see it.
The real star of the movie is the landlady, Mrs. Wilberforce (Mrs. Lopsided).
If you have never seen this film, get it. It's a "must have" for your collection - Wait for the final & funniest scene of the movie when Mrs. Wilberforce takes the stolen money to the Police Station.
Those of us who are "of a certain age" will look at the movie & think "Was it really like that? Was life really so simple?"
Buy it & enjoy (and enjoy, & enjoy, & enjoy............)
"No-one touches Mrs Lop-Sided!" - By: David Lusher, 21 Sep 2007 It never really got any better than this at Ealing - a comedy masterpiece. Loads of entertainment value here, from the gang of crooks posing as a string quartet, to the wonderfully dotty little old lady with a vivid imagination & a noisy parrot. Lots of nice little cameos here too (including Frankie Howerd as a frustrated barrow-boy). The casting is just perfect, including an outrageously disguised Alec Guinness as "The Professor", a "wide boy" Peter Sellers & a gangsterish Herbert Lom. The story is excellent & it's allin colour. This is a DVD to treasure & one that you will watch again & again.
Ealing Heaven - By: S J Buck, 07 May 2007 This very late Ealing comedy (1955) is one of the best British films ever made. Alec Guiness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers & Danny Green are the villians of the piece. The've committed a robbery & are looking for a hide-out to lay low. You'd think with a cast like that, that none of them could be upstaged. They are though, by Katie Johnson, who plays the landlady at the guest-house they hole up in. As Mrs Wilberforce she steals the film & indeed won a BAFTAin 1956 for best British Actress for her partin this film.
This film is full of great comedic moments & blessed with an almost perfect script. The guys are nearly always outwitted by the old lady (sometimes purposely & other times not). In an age of CGI & breath-taking special effects, give yourself a treat & see how films used to be made. It stands up to repeated viewings & is as good a film as you are ever likely to see. Look out for cameo roles by Jack Warner (Dixon of Dock Green) & Frankie Howerd.
